Hi, On Mon, 3 May 2010, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
Huh, what is the actual problem, could you elaborate this a bit? /tmp has been tmpfs on Solaris for ages, it also works just fine NetBSD and Ubuntu, alhough I've not yet tested this on openSUSE.
I'm running a setup with /tmp on tmpfs for about a year now with Factory on my desktop and my laptop and do not see any serious issues, what should I look for ?
There should be none whatsoever. OpenBSD, Solaris/Opensolaris, Debian, and Ubuntu clear /tmp by default on bootup. The FHS even recommends clearing /tmp on boot. It has just not been the default on openSUSE.
And that's exactly why the default shouldn't be changed. It was a conscious decision everytime that discussion came up during the past 10+ years to not clean /tmp on reboot. Nothing has changed since then. If you want to change the default, play with CLEAR_TMP_DIRS_AT_BOOTUP in /etc/sysconfig/cron (using tmpfs for /tmp could then be conditional on that variable). Ciao, Michael. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org